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The dllhost.exe is a very generic process that can run all kinds of services (.dlls). You have to check which actual services are running under those dllhost.exes. Best is to use Process Explorer for that. Hover over the dllhost.exes. That gives you a first view. A right click on it and then Properties gives you more details.

Btw - it is not unusual to have many dllhost.exes running, but 40 is a lot.

The lower pane can help you know what DLLs are being loaded by the dllhost exe. I've never seen a system with that many instances of running. But, like others have said, it might not be a problem; there might just be a lot of stuff running. Perhaps the vender customized a bunch of stuff.

Need Some Assistance With dllhost.exe Running Wild

dllhost.exe infectedI have been working on this laptop for over a week with no solution even after searching the web for every possible solution.
Here is what I have seen so far. When opening task manager and looking at processes from all users I see
dllhost.exe*32 using upwards of 80-90% cpu utilization and an...

System Security

dllhost.exeI have Computer with memory running high my OS is window pro 64 bit 4gb I had looking at resources Monitor/memory and I notice that have a dllhost.exe in faded grey it stay for a while and another appear and disappears.PID 2008

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dllhost.exe?I started taskmanager and show proccesses from all users.
I found a dllhost.exe on i click it then it disappears.
Is this a virus?
Google dlllhost.exe to see..
Or is that proccess what i see: dllhost.exe but not dlllhost.exe? :huh:

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DLLhost.esewhat mean the proces DLLHost.ese ? that is bad or sotime are broke ?

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dllhost.exe helpthere is two dllhost.exe running one under system and one under the username
im task manager i want to know is it normal for a dllhost.exe to run under my username in task manager